The following was originally posted in 2013, two weeks before a young friend died of cancer. Heaven gained another young woman this past weekend, when a missionary family here in Nicaragua lost their daughter in a freak accident. God used the situation to remind me of His challenge last fall and that it is still […]
Super-fantabulous quick rise rolls
Every single time I make these rolls, someone asks for the recipe. So I figured I’d post it here to share it with you all at once. Thanks to my friend Laura for sharing it with me shortly after we moved to Nicaragua (when I was lamenting my loss of frozen bread dough, refrigerated bread […]
Sweet Temptations
It happened just after the praise team finished singing. Our pastor came into the pulpit with a plate of caramel covered apples and I told a friend sitting beside me, “I am all over those!” So it shouldn’t surprise you to hear that my hand was among the first to be raised when the pastor […]
Living in the world without falling in love with it
I write this as two adopting families prepare to finally go home after months of living in Nicaragua with their orphans-no-more. One of the most challenging aspects of coming home after living abroad is in finding your way back into the culture. When you are immersed in it, as most U.S. citizens are for their […]